11.03.10 — Cut It Out

Scissors, Stanley Knife — Sharon Elphick

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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Puzzle by Tracy Gray, edited by Will Shortz

IT is removed from net profits, Tennessee Titans, no visitors allowed and learner's permits as clued by CUT IT OUT (62A. “Stop that!” … and a hint to the answers to 17-, 23-, 39- and 52-Across) resulting in NET PROFS (17A. Online university staff?), TENNESSEE TANS (23A. What Nashville sunbathers acquire?), NO VISORS ALLOWED (39A. Sign prohibiting sunshades?) and LEARNER’S PERMS (52A. Salon jobs from apprentice stylists?) — the interrelated group of this fine Wednesday crossword.

Other — ASIAN and EUROPE (11D. Like most Turks; 60A. Where to find a piece of Turkey), ASTRO and STAR (34A. Ballplayer with a 40-Down logo), FIORELLO (5D. Former Big Apple mayor La Guardia), IN NO TIME (14A. Quick as a wink), LOW PITCH (42D. Fastball in the dirt say), UNCLE LEO (68A. Seinfeld’s eccentric relative).

Six-letter — COSINE (18A. Trig function), ERODES (67A. Chips away at), IN JEST (47D. Kiddingly), NEVADA (8A. Sparks’s state), NUCLEI (8D. Atomic centers), PARENT (69A. Many a Little League rooter), UNISEX (16A. For all, as a restroom).

Five — ABODE, DENTS, ÉLEVE (24D. École attendee), ERECT, ERROR, HOPON, LAURA, PERIL, RATER, RECUR, REGIS, TABOR (23D. Drum accompanying a fife), TESTS, TRENT, TWO AM, VISTA.

Short stuff — ABET, ACTS, AIG and AIR and IRA, AXES, BARB, BEEP, BIN, BOTH, EEL, ENO, FIT, GEO, IMF, JOE, LAM, LIE, NCO, OER, OLA, ONE, PAL, PANE and PEN, RAH, RAYS, SCAR, SOT and TOS, TATS, TEL and TEAL, TLC, TNT, TOGO, TWP, UEY, UNA. (63D. Old-time actress Merkel).



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I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone. ~ Steven Wright

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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. The two together; 5. In fighting trim; 19. Anthem contraction; 20. Phone no.; 22. Body designs, informally; 27. One to hang with; 28. Special attention, for short; 29. Golf ball’s position; 30. “Not on ___!”; 32. Hasty escape; 43. At attention; 44. Sgt. or cpl.; 45. Like many fast-food orders; 46. Bailed-out insurance co.; 49. Local govt. unit; 51. Make public; 57. Zinging remark; 58. Coffee, slangily; 59. Nest egg letters; 67. Chips away at; 69. Many a Little League rooter; 70. “Go team!”; 71. Sunbathers catch them. DOWN: 1. Coal holder; 2. Indivisible; 3. Demolitionist’s aid; 4. Biker’s invitation to a friend; 6. Global currency org.; 7. Lab jobs; 9. Brian of ambient music; 10. Scenic view; 12. Body shop jobs; 13. Graph lines; 15. 1545-63 council site; 21. Moray, e.g.; 23. Drum accompanying a fife; 25. Emotionally damage; 26. Blue-green hue; 27. Plexiglas piece; 31. Muscle spasm; 33. AOL alternative; 35. W.C. Fields persona; 36. Bar closing time, perhaps; 37. Philbin of live TV; 38. “P.U.!” inducer; 40. See 34-Across; 41. “Hamlet” has five; 48. Prefix with thermal; 50. Jeopardy; 52. Michelle’s predecessor as first lady; 53. Goof; 54. “Humble” home; 55. Come back; 56. Zagat, to restaurants; 57. Microwave sound; 61. Porker’s pad; 64. Suffix with pay or plug; 65. Driver’s one-eighty; 66. How- ___ (handy books).

11.02.10 — Dressings

Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, as a “Vegetable Man” (Roman God of the seasons Vertumnus), by Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1591

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Puzzle by Brendan Emmett Quigley, edited by Will Shortz

DRESSINGS (57A. What the last words in 16-, 22-, 36- and 48-Across are), DUDE RANCH (16A. Where a cowpuncher may work), WHITE RUSSIAN (22A. Drink made with vodka, coffee liqueur and cream), PARDON MY FRENCH (36A. “Sorry if that rude word offended you”) and JULIUS CAESAR (48A. Play whence the phrase “the most unkindest cut of all”) are the interrelated group of this fresh Tuesday crossword.

Other — ALATEEN (53A. Group for young people coping with parental substance abuse), AMBIANCE (D. Atmosphere, as at a restaurant), DEPUTIES (37D. Sheriff’s sidekicks), IRON-JAWED (32D. Exhibiting fierce determination), KODIAKS (20A. Big bears), TARANTINO (10D. Quentin who directed “Inglourious Basterds”).

Mid-size — AGGIE, BEDEW, BLUTH, COHOST, IBMPC, LIEDTO, OPART, PENPAL, PICKS, RATIO, Rock’s Guns N’ ROSES, SANDY, SODOI, SYNCS, TANTES, TEVYE, UNREP, USEME.

Short stuff — AKIN, ALE, APOP, ARI, ATOM, BAA, BBS, BROW, CEES, CIAO, CINQ, DIA and DIE, DRY, EACH, EKCO, ELO, ENDO, ENTS, ETON, EVA, FDIC, IAGO, IDEE, IRR, KIWI, LIDO, MAKO (15A. Kind of shark), MOWS, MTN, NODS, OBOE, OHO, OKOK, QEII, RABE, RIEN, RONA, SET (60D. Word with the longest entry in the Q.E.D.), SKIS, SOHO, SYR, YES.

“The embarrassing thing is that

the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.”

~ Paul Newman

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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Toy gun shot; 4. Machine that was often cloned; 9. Molecular matter; 13. “Don’t Bring Me Down” band, for short; 14. It may be “golden” in mathematics; 18. Sweat spot; 19. School attended by James Bond … and Ian Fleming; 26. Equipment for Olympian Lindsey Vonn; 27. Aunts, in Arles; 30. “Exodus” hero; 33. Grades in the mid-70s; 35. “Arrivederci”; 40. Double-reed woodwind; 41. Prefix with -morphism; 42. “What a pleasant surprise!”; 43. Letter-writing prisoner, perhaps; 46. Quatre + un; 55. “Othello” villain; 58. Green fruit; 61. ___ fixe; 62. “Fiddler on the Roof” milkman; 63. Game cube; 64. Signs of approval; 65. Pictures that may be difficult to focus on; 66. Word repeated in a classic “When Harry Met Sally ..” scene. — DOWN: 1. Moisten, as grass; 2. Animator Don; 3. “Same here”; 4. Like the verb “to be”: Abbr.; 5. Sheep’s cry; 6. Everest, e.g.:; Abbr.; 7. Selects; 8. Any reguylar on “The View,” e.g.; 11. “I get it already!”; 12. Does some lawn work; 17. Sinusitis docs; 21. /7 of a Spanish week; 23. Kitchen utensil brand name; 24. Nothing, in Paris; 25. 1972 #2 hit for Bill Withers; 28. Individually; 29. Greenwich Village neighbor; 30. Individually; 31. “Streamers” playwright David; 34. Matches, as two tapes; 38. Bank guarantor, for short; 39. “Five Women” author Jaffe; 44. Word that can follow pale, brown or cask; 45. Told fibs; 47. British monarch beginning in “52; 49. Overseas diplomat in N.Y.C., say; 50. Little Orphan Annie’s dog; 51. Texas A&M athlete; 53. Like, with “to”; 54. Beach resort at the entrance to the Lagoon of Venice; 58. Model Herzigova; 59 Six-Day War land: Abbr.